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TOWN OF HADDAM, 

BASED ON THE SURVEYS F THE v s GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 



BY GONE DAYS 



IN 



PONSETT-HADDAM 

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, CONNECTICUT 

A STORY 



BY 

REV. WILLIAM C. KNOWLES 

RECTOR ST. JAMES CHURCH, PONSETT 



PRIVATELY PRINTED 



NEW YORK 
1914 



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SEP 11 1915 



TO 
MY ESTEEMED FRIEND 

SAMUEL THOMAS HUBBARD 

THIS LITTLE WORK 

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED 

BY 

THE AUTHOR 



CONTENTS 

Page 

Introduction 3 

Historic Landmarks 5 

A Galaxy of Old Folks 25 

Unforgotten Worthies 27 

The Indian Population 34 

A Noble Army of Martyrs 41 

Chapter of Casualties 43 

Ponsett's Picturesque Features 45 

The Roll of Clericals 48 

Public Worship 50 

The Medical Profession 52 

Ponsett in the Wars 54 

About Our Ancestry 56 

Old Documents 58 

Index 63 

Topographical Map, Town of Haddam Frontispiece 

Ponsett-Haddam Landmarks Facing page 24 



INTRODUCTION 

At the urgent request of a friend, the writer has undertaken 
to give a description of Ponsett as it was before its consolidation 
with Little City District.* The object is to furnish for the former 
inhabitants of this locality, a brief account of the place and 
people with whom they once associated, of the rugged rocks and 
hills, the pleasant valleys, the gently flowing streams and the dear 
old roads over which as boys they trudged to school, or as young 
men walked home from evening meeting at the School House with 
best girl leaning on the arm. Happy days — how well we re- 
member them ! Before starting on our trip let us inquire into a 
little of our former history. 

Ponsett is the south west portion of the town of Haddam. 
The Indians called all the Southwestern part of the town of 
Haddam, Cockaponsit; leaving off the two first syllables of 
which, we have the remnant of a name in which we take pride. We 
have but little patience with the phrase West Haddam, inasmuch 
as the good old town of Haddam had appendages enough without 
being unnecessarily burdened with another. 

We first find our name on the town records about 1690, in 
which is mentioned "Land belonging to Nathaniel Spencer in Cock- 
aponsit in Haddam, being a house-lot containing eight acres more 
or less," and again, "Land belonging to John Baly in "Cocka- 
ponsit," and "Land belonging to Ephm. Baly at Cockaponsit." 

"It is probable that a settlement was made here very soon 
after the first settlement at Haddam in 1662. 

When the settlers of the town purchased of the Indians 
for "Thirty coats," the tract of land extending from the Con- 



*We write in 1907 



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necticut River six miles westward, Cockaponsit was, of course, 
included in the purchase; though, which of the four kings, Sachus- 
quatevemapid, Keawaytahue, Turramuggus and Nabahuett, or the 
two queens, Sepunnemo pampcossame and Towkishe, the signers of 
the deed, were the original rulers of Cockaponset, cannot be 
ascertained. 

That this region was, at one time, well populated by the 
aborigines is evident by the arrow heads and other Indian relics 
which from time to time are unearthed even to the present day. A 
remnant of the natives of the soil lingered here for a long time 
after the coming of the white man, a few remaining into the 
beginning of the last century. Quite a number of Indian graves 
are to be seen in the old burying ground. 



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HISTORIC LANDMARKS. 

Let us now give a parting glance, as it were, to the old places 
and recall the forms and faces of the loved ones, many of whom 
have passed "over the river," while those that are living and widely 
separated, we may never meet again. We invite you, then, dear 
reader, to take a tramp with us over the Ponsett hills. We trust 
our journey will be a pleasant one. We shall pause at every old 
house-place and give as best we can its history, and occasionally 
some reminiscences of those who once lived there. The map at the 
end of this chapter shall be our guide. The outside borders may 
not be quite correct, especially the north western, but the roads, 
houses and sites of former houses are in the main accurate. Minor 
mistakes there may be which I trust the reader will overlook and 
rectify where needed. 

We first take up Killingworth turnpike at its upper boun- 
dary and proceed southward as follows : 

1. House built in 1861, by John L. Morrill. He died in 
1864 and is buried in a knoll a few rods west of the house; build- 
ing now unoccupied. 



2. Hole in the ground, said to have been the cellar of one 
Ferguson a turner who had a dish-mill at the falls. Think the site 
doubtful ; more probable, site 38. 



3. The cellar place of the house of John Turner, a black- 
smith, whose shop was site 8. 



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4. Collar place of a house built by Daniel Brainerd, after- 
wards owned by .James Spencer who kept a grocery in the base- 
ment. He died in 1839, and his brother Alanson Spencer occupied 
the house until his death in 1869. After the death of Alanson's 
widow, in 1883, the house was demolished. None of the family is 
now left in the place. 



5. The site of a grist-mill built by Capt. Samuel Hubbard. 
With much labor he turned the water from "Great-brook," and 
also from the "Salt-peter" brook, and with both streams united, 
had sufficient power to turn a huge overshot water wheel. The 
mill was a good thing for the place, and a successful business was 
done here until the death of Capt. Hubbard in 182(5. The mill 
afterwards passed into other hands and eventually fell into decay. 
It disappeared about 1855. 



6. Here was a dwelling house erected by Ebenezer Wilcox, 
who purchased the above mentioned mill property. The house was 
taken down about 1868. Mr. Wilcox was a shoemaker and had a 
shop on the premises. See site 7. 



7. Shoemaker's shop, mentioned above. Building taken 
down some fifty years ago. 



8. Site of John Turner's blacksmith shop. Buildings gone. 



U. Two story dwelling house erected by Sylvester Hubbard 
in 1820. Occupied by him until his death in 1872, then by his son 
Theodore until his death in 1896. House at the present time 
occupied by Bohemians. 



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10. St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, cornerstone 
laid in 1872, consecrated in 1877. 



11. Large two story house erected by Ashael Bonfoey ; was 
at one time a tavern. Passed out of the family in 1853 and was 
purchased by Willard Knowles. He, dying in 1883, it passed to 
his son Hubert W. who died in 1906. Now owned by his children. 



12. Story and a half house erected by Hezekiah Sutlief, 
about 1833. His widow left it in 1855 and the property was 
bought by Asa Burr, Esq. After the death of Mr. Burr it was 
purchased by Wm. Edgar Spencer, who is its present occupant. 



13. A one-story house erected by Roswell Sutlief. He died 
in 1861. The place has since changed owners a number of times. 
Mr. Roman Berchulsky, a Slav, then purchased it. 



14. A one-story house with gambrel roof; erected by Ros- 
well Hubbard. The frame was raised at site 67, but the turnpike 
being opened about that time the frame was moved to its pres- 
ent site. David T. Bailey bought the property and came there 
to live in the fall of 1835. He died in 1883. His son 
Frank occupied the place until a few years ago when he sold out 
to Bohemians. 



15. This is the New Cemetery, laid out in January, 1828. 
It is composed of thirty large lots. The first person buried here 
was Ursula Hubbard Spencer, wife of Alanson Spencer, who died 
February, 1828. 



16. Small house built and now occupied by Frederick 
Wilcox. 



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17. One-story house set into a bank, making it two stories 
in front. Built by James Brainerd. Sold to two maiden ladies 
who lived here a great many years. Now unoccupied and falling 
into decay. 

18. Large two-story house erected by Capt. James Thomas, 
soon after the Turnpike was opened. Was at one time a tavern. 
Capt. Thomas died in 1842. A few years later his son-in-law, Mr. 
Alfred Brainerd, came here to live. The present occupant is an 
enterprising Bohemian, Mr. Paul Jiroudek. 

THE MORRIS ROAD. 

19. Here stood a log cabin. It is not known by whom built, 
but Aurunah Hubbard once lived here. In 1795 it was occupied 
by widow Naomi Gladwin. The cabin disappeared many years 
ago and the oldest inhabitant has no remembrance of it. 



20. Here was the house of Daniel Hubbard, son of Daniel 
and Temperance Hubbard. Twelve children were reared here. 
About 1792 the family moved to New Durham, N. Y. A pile of 
stones marks the place where the house stood. The home lot is 
now overgrown with bushes. 



21. Joel Hubbard, an elder brother of Daniel, had a large 
two-story house here with a lean-to. He was the father of twelve 
children, all, except the first-born, living to adult age. Mr. Hub- 
bard died in 1802. His son Capt. Abraham Hubbard, succeeded 
to the estate. He died in 1822 and his son Edmund kept the place 
for a few years and sold out to his father's sister Mary, commonly 
known as "Aunt Polly." Late in life she married Morris Hubbard 
and he came here to live. "Aunt Polly" died in 1850. The house 
was demolished by Chauncey D. Skinner in 1855. 



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22, Here was a house but it seems impossible, at this late 
day, to find out who lived in it. It might have been the home of 
Abner Smith. The house was standing when "Aunt Polly" was a 
child. The home lot has been known for many years as the "Capt. 

Brainerd lot." 



THE NEW ROAD. 

23>. A depression in the ground shows where once stood the 
house of Ephraim Spencer, one of the first settlers of the place. 



ROAD TO HADDAM. 



24. Who the original owner of this place was is not known. 
About 1812 Betty Clark and her children were living here. Some- 
where prior to 1820 Hazael Smith caused the house to be removed 
to site 30. 



25, The home of Richard Knowles which his father Lieut. 
John Knowles willed to him in 1752. A family of twelve children 
were reared here. After the death of Richard Knowles, in 1814, 
the property passed out of the family and the house was taken 
down . 



2(5. A one-story house built by Richard Knowles 2nd, not 
far from 1790. After the death of his wife, in 1819, Mr. Knowles 
sold the place to Elizur Spencer. It remained in the Spencer 
family until 1864*. The house is now owned and occupied by 
Oscar F. Richards. 



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27. Here is left a portion of the old village-green. It was 
formerly a triangular plot very much larger than at present. The 
old Militia used to "train" here. On this green stood the Chestnut- 
Hill School House, which, one hundred and twenty-five years ago 
must have been well filled with scholars. Harris E. Knowles has in 
his possession a receipt given by Elisha Knowles, Jr., to Richard 
Knowles, for the sum of 12s 6d, for the use of the school, in the 
last half of the 18th century. 



28. This house was originally owned by Asa Walkley, a 
house-carpenter by trade. He was killed by lightning while sitting 
by the side window of the east front room. The exact date of his 
death cannot be ascertained, but it occurred not far from 1801. 
The widow remained here a few years after the death of her hus- 
band, when the property was purchased by Simeon Hubbard who 
sold to his nephew Epaphroditus Hubbard about 1839, the latter 
remaining here until his death in 1895. The property was then pur- 
chased by William C. Knowles who sold it to his son-in-law, Edwin 
W. Dickinson. It is now owned by Joseph Planata and brother. 
The house was originally but one story. Mr. Epaphroditus Hub- 
bard raised it, putting another story under the old building. The 
upper story is supposed to be the oldest house in Ponsett. 



29. A two-story house with a lean-to. A typical New Eng- 
land farm-house, built by William Knowles and his sons -John and 
Willard about 1796. William Knowles died in 1820, leaving his 
estate by will to his grand-children, William, Zeruiah and John 
H. Knowles, his son John to have the use of it during the term of 
his natural life. John Knowles died in 1836. John H. Knowles, 
who far many years was a sea-faring man returned to his home 
in 1837 and lived here until his death in 1870. His widow occu- 
pied the house until her decease in 1897. It is now the property 
of William C. Knowles and is occupied by his son John C. Knowles. 
The farm has been in the possession of the family for about one 
hundred and sixty-four years. 



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30. Hazael Smith once had a house here. It was for his 
hired man, Timothy Jackson, a negro. The house, which was 
originally site 24 has long since disappeared. 



31. The site of the ancient Knowles house. Lieut. John 
Knowles, in company with others, removed from Eastham, Mass., 
and settled here about 1742. He became an extensive land-holder, 
and at the time of his death in 1752, left large farms to his three 
sons Elisha, Richard and William. A copy of his will is printed 
elsewhere. 



32. On the map are marks for two houses. The one the 
greater distance from the road line was the house of Elisha 
Knowles, son of Lieut. John Knowles. He died in 1801. His son 
Joshua became his successor. Hazael Smith purchased the prop- 
erty, and about 1810 built a new house which he occupied until 
his death in 1866. His son Davis Smith remained there until 
1872. The property has since then changed hands several times 
and is now owned and occupied by John Novotny. 



33. Here stood a house built by Irwin W. Smith, who moved 
to Pennsylvania in the early Forties. His brother-in-law, Benjamin 
S. Bailey, purchased the property. Mr. Bailey died in 1849. 
His widow remained here until 1856. Comfort J. Treat lived here 
a number of years. Finally the property was bought by Leroy S. 
Burdick. In 1867 he sold the house to Lyman Bailey who caused 
it to be removed to Higganum. 



34. About 1742 Roger Thomas, who came from Eastham, 
Mass., settled here. After his death his son Ebcnezer remained 
here and built site 35. 



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35. This house was built close to the old one — site 34. 
Calvin Thomas, son of Ebcnezer, remained on the place. He died 
in 1847. The land was sold to Joseph R. Shailer. The house was 
bought by Benjamin S. Bailey and moved on to his near by prem- 
ises and used for a barn. Mrs. Thomas, who was Mr. Bailey's 
mother-in-law, reserved one front room for a weaving room. Here 
was her loom and all her appliances for weaving cloth and carpets. 
She died in Norwich in 1866. 



3(>. The site of a house built by Ebenezer Thomas, Jr. His 
son Ansel remained here until the early thirties when he sold to 
Capt. Sylvester Brainerd. Capt. Brainerd died in 1843. His 
widow remained here many years with her son Benjamin, who mar- 
ried and reared a family. The property having finally passed into 
other hands, the house fell into decay and has now disappeared. 



THE DENCE PLACE. 

37. This place derives its name from Prudence, otherwise 
called "Dence," the widow of Abram Simons, a Narragansett 
Indian. When or by whom the house was erected is not known. 
Abram was here a century ago. He died in 1812. A further ac- 
count of him will be ffiven elsewhere. 



DISH MILL HOLLOW. 

38. Here is the site of the Elizur Spencer house which was ;x 
very old one one hundred years ago. Who built it or lived in it, 
previous to its occupancy by Mr. Spencer, is not known. It might 
have been the home of Ferguson the turner instead of site 2. Pos- 
sibly it was once owned by Ebenezer Mudge. The house has been 
gone many years. 



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39. Garden of Eden. This is a narrow strip of land en- 
closed by surrounding hills and at one time lovely in its seclusion. 
It is now overgrown with forest and a home for wild animals. 



40. House built by David Spencer, son of Elizur Spencer 
and occupied by him until about 1848 ; then by Felix Spencer until 
his death in 1878. The place is at present owned and occupied by 
foreigners. 



OLD PONSETT STREET. 

41. This old house was the home of James Sutlief. He died 
in 1835, and Jonathan P. Spencer lived here a number of years. 
After him came Henry Hubbard. The place was purchased by 
Alvah W. Spencer about 1852. He lived here until his death in 
1899. His son disposed of the property and it is now the home 
of John Planata. On June 19, 1906, the house caught fire and 
was reduced to ashes. 



42. The Ponsett School House stood on this spot, Chestnut 
Hill having united with Ponsett in causing its erection. It was a 
one-story building nearly square on the ground. It had a stone 
chimney with a huge open fire place, which was used for heating the 
school room until the introduction of a box stove, when the stone 
chimney was taken away. At the east end of the building was a 
large rock, which for some reason or other it was thought best to 
remove. Accordingly, there was a general "turn out" of the men 
in the district, to demolish the rock, which was done in a manner 
satisfactor} 7 to themselves, perhaps, and an offset built of the 
broken pieces, which still remains. Why it should have been called 
an "improvement," the writer is at a loss to know. When the rock 
was demolished a kit of Indian tools was found hidden beneath it. 
After the consolidation of Ponsett and Little City districts the 
School House was taken down. 



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43. Here stood the house of Jeremiah Hubbard. As the 
writer remembers, it was a two-story house with a lean-to across 
the east end. The house was very old and in a dilapidated con- 
dition when taken down in 1849. Mr. Hubbard died in 1803. His 
widow survived him seven years, dying at the advanced age of 
95. She was the second wife, and not the mother of his children, 
three of whom, singular to relate, were born blind, Asa, Susannah, 
and Catherine. Deacon David Hubbard succeeded his father in the 
estate and lived here until his death in 1836. His son David suc- 
ceeded him. 



44. This is a large four-roofed house built by Cyrus A. 
Hubbard in 1849. At the time of its erection it was considered 
by far the grandest house in Ponsett. Mr. David Hubbard and 
family were its first occupants, together with his three maiden 
sisters, Miriam, Rhoda, and Hadassah. The old ladies wept as 
they left the old house for the new one. Mr. Cyrus Hubbard came 
here to live sometime after the death of his father in 1872. A 
bachelor brother and widowed sister, Mrs. Ashley of worthy mem- 
ory, also lived and died here. Cyrus A. Hubbard died here in 1900. 
His widow moved away, and the place is now owned by a Bohemian 
family. 



45. A New England farm house built by Shailer Hubbard. 
After his death in 1832, his son Sylvester succeeded him. Syl- 
vester Hubbard died in 1864. Cyrus A. Hubbard purchased the 
property, remodeled the house into its present style, lived here a 
number of years and finally moved to site 44. George 1). Winchell 
purchased the property and lived here a few years. The place 
is now owned by Mr. Horocek, a Bohemian. 



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46. Here stands a horse barn built by Cyrus A. Hubbard, 
said at one time to have been the finest building of its kind in New 
England. It is supposed to stand on, or near, the site of the first 
Hubbard house, where lived Daniel Hubbard, the progenitor of 
the Ponsett Hubbard family and one of the largest land-holders 
in the place. There is a question, however, whether this is the 
true site of the old house or site 47. Daniel Hubbard died in 
1755 and was succeeded by his son Daniel, who became the father 
of nine sons, eight of them marrying and settling in the place and 
each rearing a large family. It is remarkable that at the present 
time there are none in Ponsett who bear the name of Hubbard. 
That this is where Daniel 2nd lived, seems the more probable, as 
Dr. Field, in his history of the Hubbard family, says that Daniel 
Hubbard's house "stood near where his descendant Sylvester Hub- 
bard now lives," which is site 45, and according to tradition the 
coffin of Temperance, the widow of Daniel Hubbard 2nd, was laid, 
probably at the time of her funeral, on the rock at the south, on 
which rests a large boulder. A copy of the last will and testament 
of Daniel Hubbard appears later on. 



47. Here is a hollow in the ground, evidently, where once 
was a cellar. The writer was told when a boy, that here stood a 
Hubbard house. Probably the home at one time of one of the 
Daniels. 



48. The Eunice Sutlief place. Miss Eunice lived here 
alone for a great many years. She was noted for her skill in 
weaving linen and woolen cloths, coverlets and carpets. She died 
in 1844 at an advanced age. In her last days she was cared for 
by her nephew Hezekiah Sutlief, at whose house she died. It is 
thought that she inherited her home from her father Nathaniel 
Sutlief, The house was removed soon after her decease. 



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49. Here are the remains of the house of Jeremiah Hub- 
bard 2nd, commonly called "Captain Jeremiah." The building was 
a New England farm house, finished off in rather better style than 
most houses of that day. Captain Hubbard moved to Middle- 
town "Upper Houses," now Cromwell, in 1793. The house passed 
into the Spencer family and, for many years, was occupied at 
intervals by different families. Betty Clark and her children at 
one time made their home there. Various newly married couples 
set up house-keeping here until such time as their own houses 
could be built and made ready for occupancy. About 1852 or '53 
the place was sold by Albert Spencer to Dr. Samuel Thomas 
Hubbard of New York, who for a time used it as a summer resi- 
dence. It finally passed into other hands and was suffered to fall 
into decav. 



50. This house was built by Thomas Hubbard 2nd, between 
1795 and 1800. Mr. Hubbard died in 1803, his son Amasa Hub- 
bard succeeded to the estate, living here until his death in 1864. 
Alburn C. Hubbard, the youngest son of Amasa Hubbard, occupied 
the house with his father. He died in April, 1864. His widow 
and family removed to Meriden in 1880. The place was soon 
after sold and at present is owned by Bohemians. The house is 
of the old New England style, two stories in front, the back having 
a long sloping roof with lean-to. There is also a large basement. 

51. Here stood the house of Thomas Hubbard 1st. He died 
in 1795 and after the erection of the new house, site 50, the old 
house was moved a few rods south and used for nearly a century 

as a cow-shed. 



5£. It was here that the first schoolhouse in Ponsett was 
erected near a large rock. After doing service for many years, 
Chestnut Hill united with Ponsett and built on site 4'i. 



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53. Large New England farm house, once the home of 
Capt. David Spencer, who died here in 1850 at an advanced age. 
His son David and daughter Damaris, both single, lived here for 
many years after the death of their father. The place is at 
present owned and occupied by Mrs. Louis Florence, a French 
woman. The house is in excellent condition. 



54. Story-and-a-half house built by Atwood Spencer in the 
early Forties, over the cellar of a house which was burned, and was 
formerly the home of Sergeant Abner Spencer, who died in 1802. 
Atwood Spencer died in 1852. His widow remained here for a 
number of years. Mrs. Wilcox, a daughter of Mr. Spencer has 
lately sold the place to a Bohemian family. Mention might be 
made that between 80 and 90 years ago Jehosaphat Spencer had a 
store here and dealt in general merchandise. 



ANCIENT HIGHWAY TO HIGGANUM. 

55. This is the Sutlief Place. The house has been gone, 
probably for a century and a half or more. The highway has long 
since been abandoned and the farm has become a forest. 



OLD ROAD TO CANDLEWOOD HILL. 

56. The site of Calvin Hubbard's house. He died in 1820 
and after the death of his Avidow their son Joshua Hubbard lived 
here. The house was finally deserted and fell into decay. 



THE GUNGER ROAD. 



o*. The cellar and foundation of the chimney alone remain 
to mark the home of Timothy Hubbard. After his death in 1809 
his son Ashael succeeded him. Ashael died in 1842. A few years 
later Joshua Hubbard purchased the property and lived here until 
his death in 1866. The old house was soon afterwards taken 
down. 



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58. A small house built by Lloyd A. Wood in the early 

Fifties. The Wood family have moved away and the place- is now 
owned by Mr. Biza. 



59. The Eli Hubbard house. Mr. Hubbard died in 1817. 
Alanson Spencer who married a daughter of Mr. Hubbard lived 
here for a few years. The property was finally purchased by 
Stephen Clark. After Mr. Clark's death his son-in-law Robert 
Brainerd took possession of the property and he occupies the 
house at the present time. 



60. A small cottage built by Robert Brainerd and occu- 
pied by him until his removal to site 59. 



61 . Site of the house of Aaron Hubbard. The family moved 
to Rockland in North Bristol, now North Madison, about 1792. 



62. Site of the home of James Hubbard; a large New 
England farm-house which stood on a high elevation, commanding 
a magnificent view of the Ponsett Valley. On the east the view ex- 
tends for miles beyond the Connecticut River, while on the west 
the Meriden Mountains are seen in the distance. Mr. Hubbard died 
in 1808, and the family moved to New Durham. Some years 
later the property was purchased by Fredus Clark who lived 
here until his death in 1864. Some few years after the death of 
Mr. Clark the house was struck by lightning and all the buildings 
Hen- consumed. 



63. A small house built by Henry Lee. a grandson of 
Fredus Clark. The place is now owned by Bohemians. 



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THE OLD POND ROAD. 

64. A one story house with gambrel roof stood very near the 
dam. In the basement was a fulling mill, or clothiers works, 
where Asahel Bonfoey carried on quite a flourishing business for 
many years. On the west side of the pond is the lot where the 
teasles grew. With the influx of cotton and the manufacture of 
woolen cloth by machinery, the fulling of home-spun cloth was 
abandoned. Mr. Bonfoey built house at site 11 and left this place, 
which afterwards was occupied at different times, by Albert 
Thomas, Hoel Bowers, and by a Mr. Lantry. The house was taken 
down by Roswell Sutlicf in 184*7. 



65. Here stood a large Colonial house originally owned by 
Samuel Spencer. After his death his widow was married July 
27, 1778, to Doctor Eleazer Woodruff, who took up his residence 
here as a practicing physician. According to tradition, he had a 
negro slave who was buried on the highway, on the north side of 
the New Road and as the bank wore away his bones fell into the 
gutter. Dr. Woodruff dying or moving elsewhere, the property 
was purchased by Captain Samuel Hubbard. Mr. Hubbard was a 
very enterprising man in the place. He built the grist mill site 5. 
He died in 1826. His estate passed out of the family and the 
grand old house was taken down. 



66. Here was a Spencer place and ancient tavern, once 
the home of Capt. Abraham Spencer. After the death of Capt. 
Spencer it became the home of Ruel Knowles, later of Daniel 
Knowles, and lastly of Roswell and Hezekiah Sutlief. The Sut- 
liefs, on erecting new houses (see sites 12-13) demolished the old 
houses. Naught but the well remains to tell that a dwelling house 
once stood here. The place was sometimes called the Pine-Tree 
place. A lofty pine tree once stood near the house, the stump of 
which was remaining a few years ago. 



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ROAD TO GOOSE MILL. 

67. Here is the site of an ancient Porter place. By whom 
the house Mas built cannot be learned. About 1785 a Mr. Porter 
lived here. He was either lost at sea or died on board a vessel 
when a young man. His widow married Walker Knowles. The 
property was purchased by Roswell Hubbard who caused the old 
house to be taken down. He afterward erected the frame of a new 
building over the old cellar, but the turnpike being opened about 
that time, he had the frame carried across the lot and put up and 
covered in another place. See site 14. 



68. House erected in 1850 by James S. Thomas. He died 
in 1893. The house is now occupied by two of his daughters, Mrs. 
Olive B. Mooney and Miss Emily E. Thomas. 



69. Site of a large two story house with lean-to, once the 
residence of Samuel Hubbard, third son of Daniel and Temper- 
ance Hubbard. Mr. Hubbard commanded a company of militia 
in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1813. His son, Smith Hub- 
bard, succeeded to the estate. Smith Hubbard died in 1844 and the 
estate became the property of James S. Thomas. The house was 
taken down in 1849 and a new one built. See site 68. 



70. This sacred enclosure is known as the Old Ponsett 
burying ground. It was laid out in 1761. 



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The three oldest inscriptions found there are the following, 
that of the first being misspelled Portor for Porter: 

In Memory of 
M RS - Naomi the 

Wife of M 8 

Giles Portor 

Who died June 

the 18 th - 1762 

In the 43D Year 

of her Age. 



In Memory of 

M R - Michael 

Clark 

Who died 

Nov' br the 11 th 

A D 1763 

In the 50 th 

Year of his 

Age. 



In Memory of 
M RS - Anne 

the Wife of 

M K - Samuel 

Spencer 

Who died Fe<b r >" 

21 st 1769 In the 

19 th Year of 

her Age. 



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71. Said by some to have been the house place of one 
Porter, an early settler. Others maintain that a dwelling house 
never stood here because there are no marks of a cellar or chim- 
ney. The writer, however, is of the opinion that here is the site 
of an ancient cabin. 



72. Originally a Thomas place. The first house was burnt 
and another of one story, was erected over the cellar. The last of 
the Thomas family to live here was Mary, the widow of Israel 
Thomas. Felix Spencer occupied the house for many years. He 
moved to site 40 and his son Jonathan P. Spencer took his place. 
He there lived until about 1875. The building has disappeared. 



73. Who originally owned this place is unknown. Frederic 
Piatt, a young man, and son-in-law of Joel Hubbard, is said to 
have died here not far from 1790. Hazael Smith was living here 
in 1802. The house, probabty disappeared in the Twenties. Ben- 
jamin F. Spencer built the present house in 1873 over the ancient 
cellar. Mr. Spencer occupied the house a short time and moved 
to Higganum. His father Jonathan P. Spencer left site 72 and 
lived here until his death in 1898. Alvin B. Spencer is its present 
occupant. 



THE LYNN ROAD. 



74. Once the home of Capt. James Thomas. After he 
moved into his new house, site 18, this one was occupied by various 
families, viz., Charles Bailey, Capt. Sylvester Brainerd, Hoel 
Bowers, Willard Knowles, Joseph Treat and perhaps others. The 
house went down in the Fifties. 



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75. Here was the home of Walker Knowles. The house was 
built about the time of his marriage to his first wife, Elizabeth 
Wells, in 1784. His youngest son Willard Knowles succeeded his 
father, and remained here until 1853 when he moved to site 11. 
The house remained unoccupied a few years and was then taken 
down. The once productive farm is now overgrown with forest. 

[The site of this house was on the west side of the road, and 
not on the east side as inadvertently located on the map.] 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

A. Site of the blacksmith shop of Capt. David Spencer, 



B. The site of the house of Job Hubbard Senior who died 
in 1822. The old house was demolished about 1853 having been 
unoccupied for some years. 



C. The new Ponsett School House, following the consolida- 
tion of the Ponsett and Little City districts. The building stands 
on, or very near the line which formerly divided the two districts. 



D. A one-story house built by Job Hubbard Jr. He died in 
1853. His son Joseph B. Hubbard lived here until his death in 
1872 or 1873. This is the birth place of Rev. D. B. Hubbard. 
Euzebe Florence, a Frenchman, purchased the property and lived 
here for a number of years and sold it to Mr. Snyder, a German. 



E. Little Dam, to enclose a small body of water for the use 
of Capt. Hubbard's Mill. 



F. A huge boulder. It is said that many years ago nearly 
all the able-bodied men in Ponsett turned out to try their strength 
in starting this rock rolling; but neither rum nor muscle were 
sufficient to so much as make it "wink." 



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G. The old Pond. A dam Avas built here at a very early 
date, though for what particular purpose cannot be ascertained. 
Some have thought a grist mill was erected here by the early 
settlers. Later, the water from the pond was used in the clothiers 
works. In 1847 the dam was raised a number of feet higher and 
the water supply used as a reservoir for the Oakum works at 
Hiffffanum. 



»->» 



H. Remains of ancient saw mill dam. 



I. Bridge across Great Brook. 



J. The flume for Capt. Sanuel Hubbard's grist mill. The 
waters from the Great brook and the Salt Peter brook being turned, 
met here and formed, as the boys used to say, "a pond on dry 
land." 



K. Dish Mill Falls, and probably the site of Ferguson's 
Turning Mill. No trace of it remains. 




HA D-D AM 







LITTLE CITY 



PONSETT-HADDAM 
LANDMARKS. 




BEAVER MEADOW 



BURP DISTRICT 



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A GALAXY OF OLD FOLKS. 

We record here some who lived to a good old age — all reach- 
ing four score and beyond : 

Hazael Smith, commonly called "Uncle Zell," lived to be 92 
and died in 1866. He was always ready to talk to the boys and 
boast of his youthful exploits. He liked tobacco and chewed cut 
plug. 

Lusina Hubbard Richards, wife of Jehiel Richards, well 
known as "Aunt Lusina," passed away in 1892 at the ripe old 
age of 88 years. Two generations united to pay respect to her 
memory. 

Captain James Thomas, a hale hearty old man. Died in 1842 
at the age of 89. 

Calvin Thomas, a feeble old man, died in 1847. He was the 
last person buried in the Old Cemetery. 

James S. Thomas, a grandson of Capt. James Thomas, died 
in 1893 aged 89 years. 

Captain David Spencer, died in 1850 aged 85 years. 

There were two Sylvester Hubbards born the same year. One 
died in 1864 aged 80, the other in 1872 aged 88. 

Willard Knowles, died in 1883 aged 81, and Minerva, his wife, 
in 1888 aged 81. 

Jehiel Richards, died in 1889 aged 81. He was carried to 
Haddam for burial. 

David Hubbard, died in 1872 aged 82 years and Julia, his 
wife in 1878 aged 85. He was a son of Deacon David Hubbard, 
who died in 1836, and may be remembered by some elderly people. 



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Jonathan T. Spencer, died in 1898 aged 83. 

Epaphroditus Hubbard, died in 1895 aged 83 year-. He 
was a life-long resident of Ponsett. 

Cyrus A. Hubbard died in 1900 aged 83 years. 

We will here mention Mr. Roswell Sutlief, although he did 
not reach four score years. He was a veteran of the war of 1812. 
What pleasure it gave him to relate his experiences as a "war- 
rior"! He was quite a "songster" and usually interspersed his 
story with some fragment of an old song, something like this: 

"On yonder high mountain 
There shines a bright light, 

'Tis a pilot for sailors 
In the dark stormy night." 
I'm an old warrior, I van! Was called to Saybrook to fight 
the British and slept on the salt hay, I van ! 
Day do de day, do de day, do de day, 
I van ! I been in the war ! 

Mr. Job Hubbard, a saintly old man, died in 1853, aged four 
score years. He often officiated at funerals when the services 
of a minister could not be procured. 



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UNFORGOTTEN WORTHIES. 

We regret that so little information can be obtained of Deacon 
David Hubbard. We know that he was a life-long resident of 
Ponsett, that he held the office of Deacon in the Haddam Congre- 
gational Church for many years and was a man of exemplary 
character. His piety was of the Puritanic type, singularly de- 
voted to the doctrines of his church, and with little charity for 
those who differed from him in religious matters. But, withal, he 
was sincere and earnest in his zeal for his Master. He died in 
1836, at the ripe old age of 87 years. Captain Elmer Wilcox 
Hubbard of the regular United States Army, and a great-grand- 
son of Captain Jeremiah Hubbard, a brother of the above men- 
tioned Deacon David Hubbard, has in his possession a Military 
Commission dated 1781 and signed iby Gov. Jonathan Trumbull 
appointing Jeremiah Hubbard Captain. 

The following are copied from the Upper Middletown, now 
Cromwell, Congregational Church Records. 

"1794. Jeremiah Hubbard and his wife are Recommended 
to our Communion and accepted from the Ch.h. of Ch.st in 
Haddam." 

"At a Ch.h meeting at the Meeting House Oct. 5, 1797, Dea. 
Timy. Gipson, Dea'n Amos Sage, and Capt. Jeremiah Hubbard 
were chosen a Ch.h Committee to Converse with those who walk 
disorderly, whether Ch.h Members. That is to say Communicants, 
Covenant Persons, who do not come to the Lord's Table, but claim 
a Right to Baptism for their children." 

"At a Ch.h meeting at the Meeting House Dec. 14th, 180? 
the Brethren made choice of Capt. Jeremiah Hubbard to officiate 
in the office of a Deacon by a unanimous vote." 



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HEZEKIAH SUTLIEF. 

He was an ardent Methodist of the olden type, zealous in the 
Master's service and always ready, in the absence of a Minister, 
to offer prayer by the bedside of the sick and suffering. He died 
in 1858 aged 69. 

SHERMAN H. THOMAS. 

A native of this place, he filled the office of deacon of the Con- 
gregational Church in Collinsville from 1875 to 1879. He was 
again elected to the same office, in 1885, which he held until his 
death in 1891. A zealous and devoted servant of his Master, he 
died in his 63rd year. 

WILLIAM KNOWLES. 

He died in 1821 at the early age of 23, a young man of deep 
and fervent piety, and member of the Haddam Congregational 
Church. In February 1820 he married Miss Lovina Alcox, now 
Alcott, of Wolcott. In the Fall of that year the young couple 
set up housekeeping in his grandfather's house in Ponsett. The 
January following he was seized with a fever and died. The widow 
returned to her father's house in Wolcott where she died the 1st 
day of March following, aged 20. A few of William Knowles' 
letters to his sister Zeruiah, which breathe the spirit of a true 
piety, arc still extant. His rigid manner of life, however, would 
hardly be followed by the young disciple of the present day. The 
elders would be slow to recommend it and it would not now be 
considered a sign of a healthy religious life. Even to play a 
game of ball was considered by young Knowles as sinful. But. 
with all his Puritanic notions we never heard of any religious 
controversy between him and his young wife who wis an Episco- 
palian. 



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JOHN H. KNOWLES. 

For many years he was a seafaring man, going on his first 
voyage about 1822, and following the water until the spring of 
1837. During that time he visited the four quarters of the globe. 
He died in 1870 aged 66. 

MISS EUNICE SUTLIEF. 

A passing tribute should be paid to her memory. Undoubt- 
edly there could still be found at this late day some specimens of 
her handiwork, some plaid or figured coverlet, some piece of 
flannel or linen cloth, a remnant of Avhich Avould testif}" to her 
skill as a weaver. She was an eccentric woman, simple-minded 
and easily gulled by those who wished to amuse themselves by im- 
posing upon her good nature, and even her best friends were not 
above playing a practical joke upon her, according to the anec- 
dotes related by the elderly people. Living alone year in and 
year out, she followed the same round of domestic duties, still 
clinging to her loom and weaving until broken down by old age, 
and there came a day when mind and memory failed, and "aunt" 
Sally Knowles was called to minister to her wants. Lastly, a 
nephew took her to his own home and cared for her until her 
death. She departed this life in 1844 at the age of 88. 

BETTY CLARK. 

There are some persons now living who will remember her 
and her blind son, Orrin. In as many as three houses in this place 
they have at different times made their home, and, undoubtedly 
as many in Little City district have sheltered this unfortunate 
couple. Orrin was blind from early childhood and required con- 
stant care from his over-indulgent mother. He was afflicted with 
"rasho's" and when these spells were on, his mother must walk 



30 By Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddam 

with him. As the "rasho" usually came on in the night, poor 
old Betty would have to turn out and walk the streets with him. 
Many a night have they walked up and down these roads of ours 
through cold and storm. How hard the woman worked to support 
herself and her son ! At length, worn out, she was obliged, with Or- 
rin, to go to the poor house where she only lived a short time. The 
"rasho's" still continued to afflict Orrin, and having no longer a 
mother to lead him about the streets his keeper was under the 
necessity of placing him under restraint. For many years he 
wore hand-cuffs to prevent his tearing his clothes or otherwise 
destroying things. Poor old fellow! He died with the shackles 
on his wrists. His attendant attempted to remove them but he 
begged that they might remain and his request was reluctantly 
complied with. 

MISS LAURA D. SMITH. 

The first piano in the place was owned by Miss Smith, 
who was a skilful musician and a very remarkable woman. 
Of her parentage there is no knowledge. About 1811 she 
was found, a small babe, in a basket, at the door of Mr. Jacob 
Brainerd of Higgnnum. The town fathers gave her the name of 
Laura Dwight and placed her in the family of Hazael Smith of 
Ponsett, where she grew up with his children, calling Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith "father" and "mother," and taking their family name. 
Under the guardianship of Mr. Smith and his good wife, she de- 
veloped into an interesting and accomplished young woman. She 
was supposed to be an Indian half-breed, her features bearing a 
strong resemblance to those of that race. Miss Smith died in 
Middletown in 1861. Her remains were brought to Mr. Smith's 
house, where the funeral exercises were held and laid to rest in 
the Smith family lot in the Ponsett cemetery. 



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MRS. DEBORAH SMITH. 

Should the reader ever visit the old burying ground in Pon- 
sett there will be found near the entrance, the grave of Mrs. 
Deborah Smith who died in 1812 at the advanced age of 100 years. 

Mrs. Smith was the grandmother of Hazael Smith. Her 
maiden name was Spencer and she is supposed to have been born 
in this neighborhood. There was <a romance connected with her 
early history — a disappointment in a love affair, all the result of 
a joke played upon her by young friends, which was not explained 
until too late to be remedied. Although she gave her hand in mar- 
riage to Stephen Smith, she never gave him her heart. She used 
to say, "I would as soon have given my hand to any young man 
in the company, the night of my marriage, as to have given it to 
Stephen Smith." Her love affair was ever the chief subject of her 
conversation during her long life. It is evident however that her 
disappointment didn't shorten her days. Question : Who of the 
trio was most to be pitied — herself, the disappointed lover or 
Stephen Smith? Answer: Stephen Smith. 

BECKY ARNOLD. 

While not a native of Ponsett, Becky in her wanderings so 
often passed through this neighborhood that we will mention her 
here. Her time for disturbing the slumbers of good people, was 
some dark dismal night. The wilder the night and more severe 
the storm, the more sure the neighbors felt that Becky was on the 
move. At times she would be taken in, drenched through and 
through with rain and shivering with cold. Then, as the good 
housewife changed her apparel, and warmed and fed her, came 
the old story of her lover being lost in a storm at sea. On such 
wild nights there was no rest for Becky. Poor old woman ! Her 
rest came at last. She perished in a storm of snow on the road 
leading to Durham. When found her body was frozen stiff. How 
thankful we ought to be that in these days such unfortunates are 
kindly cared for, and not left like Becky to wander and freeze to 
death by the road side. 



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SAMUEL H UBBAED. 

Miss Emily Thomas 1ms in her possession an old Military 
Commission dated 1806 and signed by Gov. Trumbull, appointing 
her grandfather, Samuel Hubbard, Captain. 



A VETERAN OF 1812. 

Simon Knowles, sou of Walker and Elizabeth Wells Knowles of 
this place, a veteran of the War of 1812, lived to the age of 99 
and died November 23, 188-i. His death was noted by a New 
York newspaper, shortly after the Presidential election of that 
year in which he cast his vote. It was stated therein that he was 
the oldest Freemason in the State of New York and probably the 
oldest man who was then voting in Delaware County, X. Y., 
where he was at that time living. For the newspaper containing 
these facts we arc indebted to Mr. Joseph Wells of New York. 



JAMES ORSON THOMAS. 

This gentleman was born at site (59, in 1834 or 35, went to 
California about 1853 and returned for a visit to his parents in 
the winter of 1869-70. He has since visited the old home twice and 
is now located in a Western State where by natural force of char- 
acter he has risen to political and social prominence. A western 
paper says of him: "J. (). Thomas is the latest contributor to the 
records of agricultural wonders. He brought up from his Eagle 
garden a bunch of parsnips measuring from 20 to 2.6 inches in 
length. If Judge Thomas can spin out cases proportionately long 
a half dozen will last him till another election comes around." 



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HERMON E. HUBBARD. 

The son of Epaphro D. and Achsah A. Dickinson Hubbard, 
he was born at site 28 in 1844. He received a common school edu- 
cation at the Ponsett district school and at the age of 21 he ob- 
tained employment in Meriden, continuing there one year. He 
then located in Hartford and became engaged in the stair-building 
business in company with C. B. May. He returned to Meriden in 
1872 and engaged in the same business, in what was known as "the 
Steam Mill," which was destroyed by fire the following year. In 
1874, he built a planing mill on Cherry Street, which was also 
burned, in 1875. In 1877 he built another mill on Center Street. 
This building was spared the flames for twenty-six years and then 
met with the same fate as the others. In 1896 he was elected 
president of the Meriden Lumber Company and holds the position 
at the present time. Mr. Hubbard besides being engaged in the 
above mentioned lines of business has been active in municipal af- 
fairs. In 1885 he was elected alderman in the First ward for two 
years, and in 1886 he was elected First selectman for one year. 
About 1898 he was elected alderman in the Fifth ward, also Mayor 
Pro-tem. In 1899 he was appointed to serve on the first board 
of Park Commissioners, which position he now holds. He is also 
a life member in the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Hubbard was married in 
1873, to Miss Lora B. Hale of Glastonbury. 

SMITH CLARK. 

This gentleman, an attorney at law, who for many years 
resided in Haddam Village, was a native of Ponsett and a grand- 
son of Capt. James Thomas. 



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THE INDIAN POPULATION. 

Reference has been made to the Indian graves in the old bury- 
ing ground. They are on the back side of the enclosure, and all, 
save five, are unknown. Probably Annice lies in one of the un- 
marked graves. It is supposed that she lived somewhere on 
Gunger, as the neighbors on that hill kept the tradition of her 
more perfect than that of others. She is said to have been useful 
in caring for the children of her white friends, and to have been 
a very proud woman. She once said to Mr. Joshua Knowles, "// 
/ live till I die, I shall not be buried in a grave like common folks 
but my body will be placed in a vault." The writer has Mr. 
Knowles' reply but forbears to give it. 

MOLL SQUAW AND THE SOBUCKS. 

Moll Squaw was another character who figured here a cen- 
tury ago though it is not known where she made her home. 

Jim Sobuck Senior and his son Jim Sobuck junior, were 
noted Indians in their day. There were anecdotes connected with 
the Sobucks which we cannot recall, and there are now no 
elderly people left to relate them. Whether the Sobucks are 
buried here or not we do not know. A child of Jim Sobuck junior 
is buried in the ancient cemetery near the Episcopal Chinch in 
Killingworth. but where he ended his days cannot now be known. 

PLUCKY ELIZUK SPENCER. 

Mr. Alanson Spencer used to tell this story of his grand- 
father, Elizur Spencer 1st, grappling with a big Indian at 
the tavern in Durham. It seems a burly Indian was in the habit 
of entering 1 the tavern, and seating himself before the fire to the 



By Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddam 35 

annoyance of the guests, and refusing to move until he chose to. 
His insolence had become unbearable and yet no one dared to 
offend him by putting him out. Elizur Spencer of Ponsett hear- 
ing of his stubbornness resolved to try a hand with him, so one 
winter's day he started for Durham. The Indian was found in 
his accustomed place before the fire. Being asked to move and 
sullenly refusing, Mr. Spencer took him by the nape of the neck, 
and with much struggling on the part of the Indian put him out 
of the house with, "There — I thought you'd move when 'Lizur 
came." Neither landlord nor guests had further trouble from the 
Indian. 

A QUESTION OF HUMANITY. 

For many years straggling bands of Indians often passed 
the place and usually made their encampment near the house of 
Jeremiah Hubbard. On one occasion when they had built their 
camp-fires, the squaws proceeded to roast speckled turtles, which 
they had gathered on their journey, placing them alive on the hot 
coals. One of the Hubbard women remonstrated with them, call- 
ing them cruel ; whereupon an Indian woman retorted by asking, 
"How do you cook clams? Do you first kill them or do you pUt them 
in a kettle and place them alive over a slow fire — which is the most 
cruel, to roast live turtles or boil live clams?" 

THE COCKAPONSITS. 

Little is now known of the Cockaponsit Indians or where they 
buried their dead before the coming of the white man. Occasionally 
the farmer will unearth an arrow head, which shows that our 
hills and vales were once the hunting ground of the red man. But 
alas !, the proud Indian has long since departed, crowded out by 
a superior race, who could drive a bargain with the native kings 
and queens, and for thirty coats, valued at a little over three 
dollars apiece, purchase a whole township. And when, in a 
few months, the coats were worn out, the poor Indian found not 
only that the coats were gone, but that the land also had passed 
out of his hands forever. 



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THE FAMILY OF ABRAM SIMONS. 

We will now turn to an interesting story — one with a begin- 
ning bright and full of promise and an end dark and sad, that of 
the last of the Indian race in Ponsett — the family of Abram 
Simons; and as we write we wish that the end of this inter- 
esting family could have been as bright as the beginning. But 
poor Lo received little help from his white brethren — they rather 
pulled him down instead of building him up. 

Abram Simons lived at site 37. How he came to settle there 
the writer cannot tell. He was a Narragansett Indian, while 
Prudence his wife, or Dence as she was commonly called, was 
from one of the Long-Island tribes. She came to him with one 
daughter named Tamar. Abram was educated at Dartmouth 
College. Before going into the later history of the family, the 
attention of the reader is invited to the following letter: 

Dartmouth College. 
Hanover, \. H. Aug. 2. 1905. 
My dear Mr. 

I have had an interesting time this morning hunting for 
information concerning Abraham Simons. He is not a graduate 
of Dartmouth, but was a student here. He was a student in 
Moor's Indian Charity School at Lebanon, Conn., and when Dart- 
mouth was founded in 1769 by Dr. Wheelock, who had conducted 
the Charity School, two Indians came with him. Abraham and 
Daniel Simons, then spelled Symons. Daniel remained here and 
graduated from College 1777, then became a teacher and preacher. 
Abraham remained here until 1772 and then was sent by Dr. 
Wheelock among the Tusearoras of Central X. V. His story in 
this connection is given by Wheelock on the separate sheet here- 
with enclosed. 

After that period Abraham disappears from all Dartmouth 
records. I do not at present know how to find anything further, 
but probably his after life would be treated in some history of the 
Narragansett or Six Nations Indians. 

If I come upon any further information I shall let you know. 
Yours sincerely 

(Signed) R. W. Husband. 



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The following is from the other sheet referred to by Prof. 
Husband in his letter above. 

Wheelock — A narrative of the Rise and Progress of the 
Indian Charity School 1773. p. p. 7-8. 

October 21/1772. John Matthews of the Narragansett Tribe, 
having received an education in this school sufficient for a school- 
master, I sent to Mr. Kirkland, in order to learn the language 
of that tribe, and to be employed as Mr. Kirkland should think 
proper, till he should be sufficiently master of that tongue, to be 
an instructor among the Six Nations, and after that to return and 
further pursue a course of useful studies, to qualify him for that 
purpose, if it should then appear expedient. He made me a visit 
last February, and gave an account of the kind treatment he had 
met with among the Indians, and was of opinion that schools might 
be had for him and his cousin Abraham Syinons, who has also 
been fitting in this school for the same purpose. Whereupon I 
proposed to them, that I would give them a reasonable support 
among the Indians, if they would undertake and faithfully jnirsue 
the business of school-keeping, till they should themselves become 
sufficient masters of that language. They set out on that tour 
Feb. 27th, and June 20th, Symons returned and brought an ac- 
count which was also confirmed by a letter from Mr. Avery, that 
the Indians in a large meeting called for that purpose, determined 
to have no more English schools or missionaries among them, so 
that my hopes of being useful to them in such a wav were cut 
off." 



The Daniel Simons mentioned above is presumably a brother 
of Abram or Abraham as the College records spell his name; but 
the Rev. Dr. Field in bis history of Haddam invariably spelt his 
name Abram. Of his early life, however, we know no more than 
what Prof. Husband has written. 



38 By Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddam 

ABRAM S LATEB LIFE. 

\Yr have a very imperfect account of Abram during the next 
twenty years after his leaving Dartmouth. That he followed 
school-teaching a part of the time is probable, as in after life he 
took great pleasure in visiting the district school and talking 
to the scholars, and telling them how he used to punish his pupils 
by twisting their cars. It is thought he married his first wife 
somewhere in Massachusetts and that the marriage was an un- 
happy one. Two noble young Indians who occasionally visited 
Dence were said to have been her step-sons. One of them was 
deeply interested in Tamar and tried to persuade her to go away 
with him, but she refused his offer preferring to remain with her 
mother. 

Abram and Dence eventually settled in Ponsett where their 
four children, two sons and two daughters were born, Sylvanus in 
1795, Abram in 1797, Esther about 1801 and Prudence, otherwise 
called Prudy, in 1804. Abram was a man much respected, and 
Dence for her sterling worth endeared herself to her white neigh- 
bors. The two procured a livelihood and were respectable inhabi- 
tants, but. a cloud passed over the family. In 1805 young Abram 
died and two years later his brother followed him. The heart of 
Abram was buried in the grave with his boys; his hopes were 
blighted and the Indian father never recovered from the blow. 
He lived until 1812 when he followed his boys to the spirit world. 
His body was taken from the house in a violent rain storm and 
carried to the grave in an ox-cart. Owing to the severity of t'he 
storm the widow and her daughters could not follow him to the 
grave. His age was 63 years. 

Now began Deuce's struggle to maintain herself and family, 
and courageously she took up her heavy burden. Her occupation 
was that of basket-making, and with the help of Tamar she suc- 
ceeded in providing for herself and daughters. Esther and Prudy 



By Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddam .39 

were kept in school, laboring at a disadvantage through the jeal- 
ousy of the whites. Being Indians, they were kept at the foot 
of the class. Notwithstanding that in a spelling match Prudy 
could spell them all down, she was not allowed to pass above 
a white scholar. Finally the younger girls were able to weave 
baskets and thus add to their little store. Dence, by strict 
economy, laid by a considerable sum of money towards building 
a new house, for the old building had become poor, and besides 
there was no oven in the chimney. She was looking forward with 
pleasure to her new house and oven, when she was persuaded to 
lend her money to a neighbor and lost it all. The old house was 
finally burnt, taking fire from sparks from the fire place. When 
the alarm was given Tamar came down stairs bringing her bed 
with her. A hovel was then erected and in this miserable abode 
Tamar sickened and died. The town fathers with help from the 
neighbors built a new house over the old cellar, and in this house 
good old Dence finished her course in 1836, aged about 80 years. 

ESTHER AND PRUDY SIMONS. 

These Indian maidens having had in early years the advan- 
tage of an educated father to instruct them, and after his death 
the privileges of the district school, were not behind many of their 
white neighbors in a common education. Prudy had a library of 
many good books, which in that day very few white girls could 
boast of. There being no young Indians to take them in marriage, 
they made the great mistake in receiving the attention of low 
whites, and this caused the ruin of the family. In a carousal on 
the evening of May 13th, 1837 the house caught fire. Prudy es- 
caped the flames but Esther was burnt with the building. The 
neighbors gathered up her remains and buried them beside her 
mother. From this time, Prudy, although without a home, always 
found employment, sometimes at house-work and again at basket- 



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making or weaving splint seats for chairs. At last, In 1870, being 
in feeble health, she went to the poor house in Haddam where she 
soon died. Her request to be brought to Ponsett for burial was 
not complied with, there being no one with sufficient interest to 
carry out the wishes of this last member of the family of Abram 
Simons. She was buried in the pauper's corner of the old town 
yard. And here is the sorrowful ending of the Indian family. 



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A NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS. 

It has been said that old maids are the salt of the earth, and 
many of us know how "handy" the maiden "Aunt" is in the 
family. They are always supposed to be ready to "help out" in 
sickness or any other adversity — why shouldn't they? Having 
no family ties of their own, they ought to be ready to run at the 
beck and call of all their married relations. If Almah had an 
ailment "Aunt" Rhoda or Dassie was sent for and she quickly got 
relief. Who could make a bandage or dress a wound more deftly 
than "Aunt" Lusina? And while applying the bandage she 
would tell a story that would make a boy laugh and forget his 
pain. If a button came off or his pants were torn, while mother 
was busy, "Auntie" was always ready to mend the rent or sew on 
the button. What timely advice many of them could give parents 
in regard to the governing of children ! 

How vividly we recall the form and features of many of these 
estimable women — for instance, the mild peace-loving face of Miss 
Miriam Hubbard! The epitaph on her gravestone beginning with, 
"God claims thee gentle one," is but a fitting tribute to her 
memory. 

In 1845 and the twenty years following, Ponsett was certainly 
blessed with a goodly number of these excellent unmarried women. 
The roll of honor ran something like this : Thankful and Mariam 
Smith, Cynthia Thomas, Miriam, Rhoda and Hadassah Hubbard. 

These were well advanced in years, while closely following came 
Damaris Spencer, Lusina Hubbard, Cleantha Brainerd, Tamson 
and Jerusha Bonfoey, Laura and Mary Smith and Lucy Smith. 
Cleantha, Lucy, Mary and Jerusha deserted the ranks and entered 
wedlock. 



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A few years later Lusina, at the age of sixty-two. passed 
over into the matrimonial state; but the vacancy was soon 
tilled by Hannah, Esther and Ursula Spencer, .Miranda Knowles, 
Ellen Brainerd and others. After serving a few years Esther 
and Ellen also deserted and made faithful wives and step-mothers. 

No tongue can tell how many of these worthies had lying 
buried deep in the heart some romance of early life. Some lover 
married the other girl, another young man proving worthless was 
rejected, while a few might have given Dinah Gladwin's reason for 
remaining single, — "I was to have been married hut lw died." 



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CHAPTER OF CASUALTIES. 

Not far from the year 1800, Asa Walkley, a worthy resident 
of the place was struck by lightning and instantly killed, while 
sitting by his window during a thunder shower. 

Edmund Hubbard, a son of Joel Hubbard, is supposed to 
have perished at sea, about 1790. The exact date cannot be 
ascertained as the vessel with officers and crew was never heard 
from. 

It is a remarkable coincidence that John Hubbard, another 
son of Joel Hubbard, is also supposed to have been lost, in a 
gale at sea, on the 10th of September, 1800, while on a vessel 
bound for the West Indies, which vessel, also, was never heard 
from. 

Thus, five young men from the town of Haddam, nearly 
all, if not all of them from Ponsett, must have met an untimely 
end. Their names were John Hubbard, Willard Knowles, Chal- 
lenge Smith, Prince Thomas and another by the name of Porter. 

Abraham Brooks was killed by falling from a ladder while 
engaged in painting house at site 14, his head striking on a rock 
near the north west corner of the building. His age was 73. 

August 31st, 1827, William Lanfier, a step-son of John 
Knowles, and the son of his wife Sarah by a former marriage, 
was killed on the road to Haddam. He was riding on a stick of 
timber and somehow lost his balance and fell, the wheel of the 
cart passing across his breast. He was conveyed to the house of 
Mrs. Simons, an Indian woman, where, in a short time, he breathed 
his last. His age was 20 years. 



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Esther Simons, an Indian woman, perished in a fire in 1837. 
The sad story of her closing days is found in a preceding chapter. 

In 1863 Mrs. Nancy M. Huntington was found lying un- 
conscious by the road side having been thrown from a wagon. She 
died in a few hours. 

December 30th, 1869, John H. Knowles, a sufferer from fall- 
ing sickness, was seized with a fit and scalded, from the effects of 
which he died six days after. 

In 1857, Oswin Hubbard a sailor, a grandson of Eli Hub- 
bard, fell from mast-head, striking the rail of the ship, and 
was lost in the sea. 



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PONSETT'S PICTURESQUE FEATURES. 

Ponsett abounds with hill and vales ; the prospect from some 
of elevations being magnificent. From Gunger heights the view 
towards the east is enchanting, and looking over the Ponsett valley, 
the eye stretches on beyond the Connecticut river to an immense 
distance. Tourists who climb the hill are delighted with the pros- 
pect, which for grandeur is rarely surpassed elsewhere in this 
country. From Goose hill the scene is scarcely less beautiful. Here 
we get a fine view of the lovely Connecticut as it winds its way to 
Long Island Sound. The picturesque village of Moodus, which 
nestles amid the hills on the east side of the Connecticut, is plainly 
to be seen, and a fine view is obtained of the lofty spire on the 
Congregational Church at Little Haddam. We also catch a 
glimpse of the spires at Haddam Neck, Middle Haddam, and Hig- 
ganum, while the cross of St. James' Church in the Ponsett valley 
rises over the surrounding hills. From Knowles hill an extensive 
view is obtained of the Connecticut valley. From John's hill, whose 
summit until recently was crowned with a huge apple tree, which 
had stood the wintry blasts of a century and was plainly visible 
from Millington green, is seen an enchanting prospect of lofty 
hills and deep valleys ; the hill sides being dotted with farm houses, 
and villages showing in the distance. From Calvin Hill with its 
sheep rock, a shelving ledge under which a flock of sheep were 
once struck by lightning, we obtain a view of Beaver Meadow 
and Turkey Hill. 



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OUR PRODUCTIVE .SOU.. 

Our hill sides arc well adapted for grazing, while the flat lands 
with diligent culture are very productive. The soil is good and 
generally very grateful for what is done to it. In the olden times 
our hills were crowned with wheat, but the incoming of the hessian 
fly put a stop to wheat raising. Rye, Indian corn, buckwheat, 
barley, and sonic oats, are the principal products grown at the 
present time, together with potatoes, turnips and other vege- 
tables. Fruit growing is in a few instances made to pay quite 
well. Apple orchards are less numerous than formerly, when 
nearly every man had a cider mill on his farm, but there is not a 
cider mill left in Ponsett. The dairy business is followed to some 
extent, and swine and poultry arc also raised for home use. 

The lowlands are well adapted for grass growing and nearly 
every farm is well supplied with living springs of water. 
Flax was raised here to some extent as late as the Forties, 
when every housewife knew how to spin linen. The pleasant hum 
of the little flax wheel is heard no more ; the buzz of the sewing 
machine has taken its place. The farmer is no longer employed 
on cold winter days in breaking and dressing flax and other em- 
ployments have succeeded this once important industry. Some- 
times we are inclined to think the former days were better than 
these. Nevertheless we would not like to go back to those far 
away times for we now have comforts unknown to our fore- 
fathers. Let us be thankful that our lot has fallen on better days. 



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FAMILIAR STREAMS. 

The Great brook, commonly called the Ponsett brook, which 
drains the valley from the west, receives numerous tributaries that 
come from the hills. After receiving the waters of the Salt 
Peter brook it becomes a good-sized stream, and makes a pleasant 
picture as it rushes over the Dish-mill falls, then, passing on 
a mile or more and receiving other tributaries, it becomes Hig- 
ganum river and enters the Connecticut at that place. 

There is another small brook which is one of the sources of 
Mill river and has its origin in a boiling spring a few rods south 
of site 25. This little stream runs in an easterly direction and 
enters the Connecticut at Hiaddam. All these streams abound in 
fish and are a source of great delight to the angler. 

Still another little rippling stream must not be forgotten, 
the Coal-Pit brook, which has its rise in Polly ledges, crossing the 
Morris road on its way to the Great brook. No bridge has ever 
been built over the brook at the Morris road crossing, and in 
winter the stream is often swollen and turbulent. It was at this 
crossing, in January, 1804, where Mrs. Eunice Skinner, returning 
from the funeral of Mrs. Judith Knowles waded the torrent in a 
blinding storm of snow. 



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THE ROLL OF CLERICALS. 

The Rev. Jonathan Burr Hubbard, son of Amasa and Betsey 
Burr Hubbard, was born at site 50, April 9th, 1810. He became a 
Presbyterian minister and settled at Middle Granville, N. Y. In 
1844 he married Miss Mary Eleanor Fish, at Whitesboro near 
Utica, N. Y. He also served in the ministry in Wood County 
Ohio and at Adrian Mich., where he died. 

The Rev. David Brainerd Hubbard, son of Joseph S. and 
Emma Brainerd Hubbard, born April 30th, 1847. His birth 
place was at site C. After receiving an education at the 
Little City district school he entered the Wilbraham Academy 
and Wesleyan College and then the Hartford Theological 
Seminary from which he graduated in 1872. He was or- 
dained to the Ministry in the Congregational Church at Sfcaf- 
fordville where he had officiated during his senior year at the 
Seminar}-. Early in 1874 he received a call from the church in 
Canton Center, which he accepted, remaining there eleven years. 
He then removed to Middletown, and became pastor of the Con- 
gregational Church in Westfield, where he has remained and done 
faithful work in the parish for twenty-two years. He has been 
no rover, but diligent in the Master's service, in the place where 
Divine Providence has, unquestionably, appointed him. He has 
also been one of the foremost and active members of the Westfield 
Grange, serving as Chaplain and Lecturer. Mr. Hubbard has twice 
married, first to Miss Harriet E. Burr and secondly to Miss 
Alice R. Burr, his wives being sisters, and daughters of Jonathan 



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H. and Margaret Denison Burr of Little City district. As a 
pastor, Mr. Hubbard sympathizes with the afflicted, having him- 
self drank deeply of the bitter cup of affliction. Four lovely chil- 
dren, their ages ranging from two to twenty-one years, lie buried 
in the neat little cemetery by the road-side in Little City. He 
has seven children now living, the youngest eleven years old. 

The Rev. George Wood, son of Lloyd A. and Delia A. Clark 
Wood, became a Methodist Minister. He is now living in Cali- 
fornia. 

The Rev. William Clark Knowles, son of John H. and Tanson 
M. Clark Knowles, was born at site 29, March 23, 1840. He 
studied for the Ministry under the Rev. Dr. Deshon of Meriden and 
was ordained Deacon in St. Andrews Church in that city in 1875. 
He was ordained Priest in 1886 in Emmanuel Church Killing- 
worth. 



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PUBLIC WORSHIP. 

For over a century our ancestors attended public worship at 
the Congregational Church at Haddam. Many were obliged to 
g i a distance of four miles over the rough roads, and those living in 
the Little City district from one to two miles farther. There were 
no light wagons in those days, the journey being usually made on 
horseback, the husband on the saddle and the wife seated on a 
pillion behind him, while others made the journey ou foot. The 
Congregational Church was the standing order, and a generation 
had come up who knew no other mode of worship. The township 
being of extensive area with constantly increasing population it 
must have been almost impossible for one pastor to keep watch 
over so wide a territory, or feed so large a Hock. In the remote 
corners of the town the consequence was, probably, indifference 
and neglect of religious duties to an alarming extent. 

This was remedied in a great measure, by the organization 
in 1793, of a Methodist Society in the western part of the town. 
As the house of worship, erected in 1795 was located in that por- 
tion of Ponsett known as the Burr district, we will not attempt to 
give its history here. For additional information concerning it 
the reader is referred to an Historical Sketch of this church, by 
Rev. Saul O. Curtice, wherein is given an account of the good work 
done by the Ponsett M. E. Church. In looking over the list of 
members we find the names of over fifty persons from this dis- 
trict, who, since its organization have been connected with this 
Society. 



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St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church began with a small 
Sunday School in 1861. Lay-reading began the first Sunday in 
Advent of that year. The Rev. H. B. Hitchings, rector of St. 
Stephen's Church East Haddam, gave the first clerical service, fol- 
lowed later on by the Rev. H. T. Gregory, the Rev. Francis 
Goodwin, and an occasional visit from Bishop Williams. Interest 
increasing, a lot was procured and ground broken for a church in 
1871. The following year the cornerstone was laid and in 1873 
the building was closed in, and formally opened by the Rev. Samuel 
Fuller D. D. of Middletown. The next year, 1874, the interior 
was finished and the Rev. Dr. Coit of the Berkeley Divinity School, 
gave the opening service. In 1877, all debts on the building 
being discharged, the church was consecrated. In 1889 a tower 
was added and a bell raised to its place amid great rejoicing. As 
this is not a Church History no more need be said, only thanks 
for the Divine blessing. 



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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 

Over a century has passed since we have had the services of a 
resident physician. Dr. Eleazer Woodruff for many years lived in 
this place at site 65. He married Mrs. Abigail Clark Spencer, the 
widow of Samuel Spencer. We regret that so little can now be 
learned concerning him. In 1783 he buried an infant son in the 
old burying ground, an elaborate headstone marking the grave, 
but we do not know when or where Dr. Woodrufi" or his wife died. 
Mr. Eleazer Woodruff, a grandson of the Doctor has lately died 
in Guilford at an advanced age. But for his passing away much 
valuable information could undoubtedly be obtained concerning 
his grandfather. 

Since the days of Dr. Woodruff we have had to depend for 
medical assistance on the physicians at Haddani and Higganum. 
We may mention Drs. Clark, Warner. Catlin, Hutchingson, Bid- 
well and Hazen of Haddani and Drs. Andrus, Tremaine, Bailey, 
Smith and Kellogg of Higganum. The services of Dr. Hill and 
Dr. Burr of Killingworth were also called for when occasion 
required. 

DR. SAMUEL THOMAS HUBBARD. 

Ponsett has also given to the medical fraternity an able 
physician in the person of Samuel Thomas Hubbard M. D. 
Doctor Hubbard was the son of Amasa and Betsey Burr Hubbard. 
He was born at site 50 Feb. 19, 1808. He received his education 
at the Brainerd Academy in Haddam. Grammar school in Middle- 



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town and Suffield Academy. He studied medicine under the care of 
Dr. Amos S. Miller of New York and in 1835 he was there gradu- 
ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was 
President of the New York County Medical Society from 1866 
to 1867, Vice-President of the New York Academy of Medicine in 
1873 and in 1884 he declined a proffered nomination as President 
of the Academy. He was attending physician at the Presby- 
terian Hospital from 1875 to 1881 and Consulting Physician 
from 1880 to 1885. He served also as Vice-President, President 
and member of the Board of Managers of the Society for Relief 
of Widows and Orphans of Medical men and was Trustee of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1874 to the time of his 
death in 1894. 



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PONSETT IN THE WARS. 

While it is difficult to ascertain who of our forefathers served 
under the British sovereign in our Colonial wars, we find arrayed 
on that side the names of Lieut. Daniel Hubbard and Lieut. 
John Knowles. 

Mr. Frank L. Hubbard, formerly of this place, but now of 
Nebraska, has in his possession an old commission given by King 
George to Aaron Smith. 

Probably there were many more who served in the army as 
the country bad need. The descendants of Mrs. Anna Hubbard 
point with pride to the lot of Capt. Brainerd, which she plowed 
and sowed with rye when her husband Joel Hubbard was in the 
arm}'. 

Engaged in the War of the Revolution we find these names: 

CAPT. SAMUEL HUBBARD WALKER KNOWLES 

ENSIGN JEREMIAH HUBBARD LEMUEL PRATT 

ENSIGN JAMES KNOWLES JOEL III' I! BAUD 2.N0 

SERGT. ABNER SPENCER JAMES HUBBARD 

CORPORAL FREDERICK PLATT .JOB HUBBARD 

CORPORAL AARON THOMAS SAMUEL SPENCER 

WILLIAM GLADDING ELIZUR SPENCER 

DAVID HUBBARD EBENEZER THOMAS 

REUBEN HUBBARD EVAN THOMAS 

timothy hubbard and probably 

SAMUEL HUBBARD CAPT. JAMES THOMAS 

Joel Hubbard was taken prisoner by the British and con- 
fined for some time in the prison ship at New York. 



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55 



Of those who served in the war of 1812 we have the follow- 



ing: 



SYLVESTER BRAINERD 
ABRAHAM HUBBARD 
CALVIN HUBBARD 
MATTHEW HUBBARD 



SIMEON HUBBARD 
WELLS KNOWLES 
SIMON KNOWLES 
ROSWELL SUTLIEF 



The names of those that enlisted in the war of the Rebellion 
are as follows : 



STEPHEN CLARK 
RUSSELL CLARK 
JOHN CLARK 
HENERY LEE 
JOHN L. MORRILL 



ERASTUS H. KNOWLES 
RUSSELL SPENCER 
ABRIATHAS H. SPENCER 
SAMUEL T. SPENCER 
LLOYD A. WOOD 



Of the above Russell Spencer and Samuel T. Spencer never 
returned. John L. Morrill died soon after his return and was 
buried on a knoll west of his dwelling house, site 1. 

Who will say that the above is not a good showing for one 
small neighborhood? In time of national peril, old Ponsett has 
been found faithful ! 



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ABOUT OUR ANCESTRY. 

The Baileys have descended from John Bailey, one of the 
first settlers of Haddam. 

The Bonfoey family were of French Huguenot extraction. 

The Brainerds are descendants of Deacon Daniel Brainerd, 
who came from Braintree, England, about 1649, he then being a 
mere lad. On reaching manhood he settled in Haddam. 

The Clarks are descendants of William Clark one of the 
original settlers of the town. 

The Hubbards have descended from Daniel Hubbard a 
grandson of George Hubbard who settled in Middletown about 
1650. Daniel Hubbard was left motherless when an infant of 
eight days and was brought to Haddam by his maternal grand- 
parents. On reaching man's estate he became a great landholder 
in Ponsett. He was twice married, first to Susannah Bailey, sec- 
ond to Bathsheba Stow. 

The Knowleses are descendants of Lieut. John Knowles who 
settled in Ponsett about 1742. He was a son of Col. John and 
Mary Sears Knowles of Eastham, Mass. and grandson of John 
and Apphia Bangs Knowles, his grandmother being a daughter 
of Edward Bangs a Pilgrim who came to New England in the 
ship Anne in 1623. The last mentioned John was killed by the 
Indians in King Philip's War, near Taunton Mass. April 3rd 
1675. He was a son of Richard Knowles, who is supposed to 
have been a native of Lincolnshire, England, and came to this 
country about 1628 and settled in Plymouth, Mass. where he 
married Ruth Bower Aug. 15, 1639. 



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Mehetabel Walker Knowles, the wife of Lieut. John Knowles, 
was a great-great granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins of the 
Mayflower. 

The Thomas families are descendants of Roger Thomas who 
came from Cape Cod and settled here about 1742. His wife is 
said to have been a descendant of Stephen Hopkins. 

The Wilcox family were descendants of John Wilcox an 
early settler of North Killingworth. 

Nearly all the old families were of sturdy New England 
stock. Most of them could boast of Pilgrim ancestry. Miss 
Effie and Miss Josephine Richards and Miss Esther and Miss 
Eleanor Knowles, together with Masters Charles and William 
Phelps, are the 12th generation from John and Priscilla Alden. 

While many can boast of their Pilgrim ancestry, numerous 
descendants of the two brothers Daniels 2nd and Jeremiah Hub- 
bard lay claim to original native American blood. The brothers 
married sisters, daughters of Thomas Shailer, who, according to 
tradition, were closely allied to the North American Indians, prob- 
ably through Kathorn their mother. This lacks certainty but 
the tradition is wide-spread. 



GOOD BYE. 

Our rambles and our stories are now ended. We have en- 
joyed the walks and the talks together. 

Dear Old Ponsett ! 

May her sons and her daughters, however widely they may be 
scattered, never forget her; and when we go the way of all the 
earth may we be gathered to our fathers in peace ! 



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OLD DOCUMENTS. 

We here insert a copy of the last will and testament of Daniel 
Hubbard 1st of Ponsett, a document of general interest, and es- 
pecially so to his numerous descendants. He died the year fol- 
lowing the making of the will. 

In the Name of God Amen. 

The 28th. day of Jan r y J Year of our Lord 1754, I Danl 
Hubbard, the first of Haddam in e , County of Hartford & Col- 
lony of Connecticut in New England being Old & far Advanced 
in Years & Not Know.g. how soon it may please God to Call me 
hence by Death & being of sound and perfect Mind & Memory & 
Willing to Sett my house in Ord.r. before I Die do therefore 
Make This My Last Will & testament, that is to say principally 
& first of All I give my soul to God that gave it & My body to ' 
dust from Whence it was taken to be Decently buried at J 
discretion of My Executor herein named & as touch. g. my 
Worldly Estate I Give Demise & dispose thereof in the follow. g. 
form & Manner. Viz. 

imprimis. I Give to My D. r . & Lov.S. Wife Bathshcba Hub- 
bard all m}' personall Estate of all sorts (which I have not other- 
wise disposed of in this Will) to be her Own for Ever. 

Item, as touch. g . my three sons Viz. Dan.l Hubbard, Thomas 
Hubbard & Jer. a . Hubbard I have Already Given them by deed of 
Gift so much of My Estate as I think proper for them to have 8: 
therefore Add Nothing herein. 

ITEM. I give to my five daughters Viz. Mary Parmily, Su- 
sannah Crampton, Eliz. Munger, Hannah Cone & Martha Stow 
the sum of One Hundred & fifty pounds of my personall Estate, 
That is to say so much of my personall Estate as shall be Equall in 
Value to one hund.& fifty pounds of bills of credit of the old 
tenor to be Equality Divided betwixt them Viz. to each of them 
thirty pounds. 

Also I give to my s d Daughter Mary My Warm. 8 , pan & I make 
& Ordain mv Eldest son Viz. Dan.l Hubbard the second sole 



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Execut. r of this my Last Will & testament, & I do hereby Utterly 
disallow, Revoke & disanull all & Every Other or former Wills, 
testaments & Legacies, bequests & Execut. rs heretofore by me in 
Any Wise Named Willed & bequeathed., Ratifiing h Confirm. g. 
This & No Other to be my Last Will & testament. 

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Af- 
fixed my Seal the day & Year at first Sett Down. 

(Signed) Dan. 1 Hubbard first. 

Signed Sealed & publish. d pronounced and declared by the 
Said Dan. 1 Hubbard the first to be his Last Will & Testament in 
presence of us the Subscribers. 

Dan.l Hubbard 3d. 
Tim. a Hubbard. 
Hez. a Brainard. 



THE WILL OF LIEUT. JOHN KNOWLES FOLLOWS : 

In the Name of God Amen. 

The nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord 
1752. 

I, John Knowles of Haddam in the County of Hartford and 
Colony of Connecticut in New England, being very sick and weak 
in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to 
fiod, considering the present weak and infirm state of body not 
knowing how soon it may please the Sovereign Lord of all crea- 
tures to call me hence by death and being Avilling to set my house 
in order before I die Do make and ordain This my last Will and 
Testament: That is to say, principally and first of all, I give 
and recomend my soul to God that gave it and my body I be- 
queath to the earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my 
Executors herein after named, and as touching ye portion of 
worldly estate given me I now give and demise and dispose Thereof 
in the following form and manner, Viz : 



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imprimis 1 give to my dear and loving wife Mehetabel 
two cows my brown mare, six sheep and one third part of all my 
personal estate, exclusive of my stock, viz. horses cattle, sheep 
and swine, to be her own forever and the use and improvement of 
the Eastern half of my dwelling house, half my barn and one- 
third part of my land during the time that she shall remain my 
widow. 

item. I give to my eldest son Elisha Knowles his heirs and 
assigns forever all my interest in the house that s d Elisha 
dwelleth in and one third part of all my real-estate in the build- 
ings and lands, exclusive of such buildings as I have particularly 
disposed of in this Will. Also I give to s d Elisha my youngest 
yoke of oxen, my heifer which I bought of Lemuel Pratt and one 
fourth part of my sheep, after my said wife shall have had six of 
them, one third part of my cart and irons and my smallest chain. 

item: I give to my second son Richard Knowles, his heirs 
and assigns forever, the house that he now dwelleth in, and one 
third part of all my real estate in buildings and lands except 
my dwelling house and my barn standing near to it and my 
interest in the house that my son Elisha dwelleth in. Also I 
give to said Richard my Bull, two steers one year old past, one 
fourth part of my sheep, after my wife shall have had six of 
them and one third part of my cart and irons and one feather bed 
without furniture and my oldest saddle. 

item: I give to my third son William Knowles his heirs 
and assigns forever my dwelling house and my barn standing 
near said house and one third part of all my real estate in build- 
ings and lands, except the houses that my sons Elisha and Rich- 
ard now dwell in. Also I give to said William my oldest yoke of 
oxen, my youngest man', one heifer two year old past, one black 
steer one year old past, one fourth part of my sheep after my 
said wife shall have had six of them, my oldest cow, one feather 
bed and furniture, one chain, one plough with the iron belonging 
to it, and one third part of my cart with the irons belonging to 
it, and my best saddle and my best bridal. 

item. I give to my only daughter Mehetabel Smith one 
brindle cow, one wd heifer, one fourth part of my sheep after my 



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said wife shall have had six of them and all other of my personal 
estate which I have not otherwise disposed of in this will. 

And I make and ordain my aforesaid wife Mehetabel and my 
eldest son Elisha, Executors of this my last Will and Testament 
and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disanul all and 
every other former wills, Testaments, Legacies and Bequests and 
Executors heretofore by me in anywise named Willed and Be- 
queathed, ratifying, confirming this and no other to be my last 
Will and Testament. In witness and for full confirmation thereof 
I have 'here unto set my hand and seal t'he day and year at first 
above set down, 

(signed) John Knowles. 
Signed, Sealed, Published and Pronounced and Declared by the 
said John Knowles, as his last Will and Testament in the pres- 
ence of us the subscribers, 

Williams Smith 

(signed) Robert Cogswell 

Hezekiah Brainerd. 
[The inventory of the estate of Lieut. Joihn Knowles footed up 
£4756, 6s. Od.] 



COPY OF DEED EXECUTED IN 1769. 

To all People to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. 

KNOW YE that we Abner Smith & Mehetabel Smith, both 
of Haddam in the County of Hartford & Colony of Connecticut 
in New England. 

For the Consideration of five pounds Eight Shillings lawful 
Money, Received to our full satisfaction, of William Knowles 
of said Haddam. Do Give, Grant, Bargain, Sell, and Confirm 
unto the said William Knowles, His Heirs & assigns forever, One 
Certain Peice of Land lying in said Haddam at a Place called 
Puncet, Containing Three Acres, Bounded Easterly on Land of 
said William Knowles, Westerly on Land of said Mehetabel Smith, 
Northerly on highway & Southerly on Land of the said Abner 
Smith. To Have and to Hold the above granted and Bargained 



62 By Gone Days in Ponsett-Haddiun 

Premises, with the Appurtances thereof, unto the said William 
Knowles his Heirs and Assigns forever, to his and their own proper 
Use and Behoof. And also We the said Abner & Mehetabel 
Smith do for ourselves our Heirs, Executors and Adminstrators, 
Covenant with the said William Knowles, his Heirs & Assigns, 
That at and until the Ensealing these Presents We are well 
Seized of the Premises as a good indefeasible Estate in Fee-simple; 
and have good Right to Bargain and Sell the same in Manner 
and Form as is above Written ; and that the same is free of all 
Incumbrances whatsoever. And Furthermore, We the said 
Abner & Mehetabel Smith do by these Presents bind ourselves and 
our Heirs forever, to WARRANT and Defend the above Granted 

and Bargained Premises to him the said William 

his Heirs and Assigns, against all Claims and Demands whatso- 
ever. In Witness Whereof We have hereunto set our Hands and 
Seals the second Da} r of November in the Tenth Year of the Reign 
of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third of Great Britain, &c. 
KING. Anno Domini 1769. 

(Signed) Abner Smith 

Mehetabel Smith. 
Signed and sealed 
and delivered in the Presence of 
Hez. Brainerd 
Hannah Bailey 
Samuel Hubbard. 



INDEX. 



Page 

ALOOX, MISS LAVINA 28 

ALDEN, JOHN 57 

ALDEN, PRISCILLA 57 

ANDRUS, DR 52 

ARNOLD, BECKY 31 

ASHLEY. MRS 14 

AVERY, MR 37 

BAILEY, ANCESTRY 56 

BAILEY, BENJAMIN 11, 12 

BAILEY, CHARLES 22 

BAILEY, DAVID T 7 

BAILEY, DR 52 

BAILEY, PRANK 7 

BAILEY, HANNAH 62 

BAILEY, JOHN 50 

BAILEY, LYMAN 11 

BAILEY, SUSANNAH 56 

BALY (SEE BAILEY). JOHN 3 

BAILEY, EPH 3 

BANGS, EDWARD 56 

BERCHULSKY, ROMAN 7 

BIDWELL, DR 52 

BIZA, MR 18 

BONFOEY, ANCESTRY 56 

BONPOEY, ASHAEL 7, 19 

BONFOEY, JERUSHA 41 

BONFOEY, TAMSON 41 

BOWERS, HOEL 10, 22 

BOWERS, RUTH 55 

BRAINERD, ALFRED 8 

BRAINERD, ANCESTRY 56 

BRAINERD. BENJAMIN 12 

BRAINERD, CAPT 54 

BRAINERD, CLEANTHA 41 

BRAINERD, DANIEL 6, 55 

BRAINERD, ELLEN 42 

BRAINERD, HEZEKIAH 61, 62 

BRAINERD, JACOB 26 

BRAINERD, JAMES 8 

BiRAINERD. ROBERT 1* 

BRAINERD, CAPT. SYLVESTER 

12, 22. 55 

BROOKS. ABRAHAM 43 

BURDTCK, LEROY 11 

BURR, MISS ALICE R 48 

BURR, ASA S 7 

BURR, DR 52 

BURR, MISS HARRIET E 48 

BURR, JONATHAN H 48 

BURR, MARGARET DENISON .... 4S 

CATLIN, DR 52 

CLARK, ANCESTRY 56 

CLARK, BETTY 9, 16, 29 

CLARK, DR 52 

CLARK, FREDUS 18 

CLARK, JOHN 55 

CLARK, MICHAEL 21 

CLARK, ORRTN 29 



Page 

< LARK. Rl'SSELI 55 

( LARK. SMITH 33 

CLARK, STEPHEN '.IS, 55 

CLARK, WILLIAM 56 

COGSWELL, ROBERT 61 

OOIT, REV. DR 51 

GONE, HANNAH 58 

GRAMPTON, SUSANNAH 58 

CURTICE, REV. SAUL 50 

DESHON, REV. DR 48 

1 ) ICKINSON. EDWIN \V 10 

DWIGHT, LAURA 30 

FERGUSON 5, 12, 24 

FIELD, DR 15, 37 

FISH, MISS MARY ELEANOR 48 

FLORENCE, EUZEBE 23 

FLORENCE, MRS. LOUIS 17 

FULLER, REV. SAMUEI .".1 

GIPSON, TIMOTHY 27 

CLADDING. WILLIAM 54 

CLADDING, NAOMI 8 

GLADWIN, DINAH 42 

GOODWIN, REV. FRANCIS 51 

GREGORY, REV. H. T 51 

HALE, LORA B 33 

IIAZEN, DR 52 

HILL, DR 52 

HITCHINGS, REV. H. B 51 

HOPKINS, STEPHEN 57 

HOROCEK, MR t ! 

HUBBARD, AARON 18 

HUBBARD, CAPT. ABRAHAM ...8, 55 
HUBBARD. ACHSAH A. DICKIN- 
SON 33 

HUBBARD, ALBURN C 16 

HUBBARD, AMASA 16. 48, 52 

HUBBARD, ANCESTRY 50 

HUBBARD, MRS. ANNA 54 

HUBBARD ASA 14 

HUBBARD. ASHAEL 17 

HUBBARD, ATRT'NAH 8 

HUBBARD, BATHSHEBA 58 

HUBBARD. BETSY BURR 48,52 

HUBBARD. CALVIN 17, 55 

HUBBARD, CATHARINE 14 

HUBBARD, CYRUS 14 

HUBBARD, CYRUS A 14, 15. 26 

HUBBARD, DANIEL 8. 20. 54, 56 

HUBBARD, DANIEL 1st 8. 15, 58 

HUBBARD, DANIEL 2nd ....15. 56. 57 

HUBBARD, DANIEL 3rd 57, 59 

HUBBARD, DAVID 14, 25. 54 

HL^BBARD. DAVID 1st 13 

HUBBARD. DAVID 2nd 13 

HUBBARD. REV. D. B. (Dnvirl 
Brainprd > 23. 48 



63 



64 



INDEX 



Page 

HUBBARD, DEACON 2.->, 27 

HUBBARD, EDMl'Xl t s. I.: 

IIIHIUKD, EDI 18, II 

HUBBARD. ELMER WILCOX 27 

HUBBARD, EMMA BRAIXERD 4S 

III r.I'.AIil). EPAPHRODITUS 

(Epaphro D) 10, 26, 33 

HUBBARD, FRANK L 54 

HUBBARD, GEORGE 56 

HUBBARD, HADASSAH 14. II 

HUBBARD, HENRY 13 

HUBBARD, IIKRMOX E 33 

HUBBARD, JAMBS 18,54 

HUBBARD, JEREMIAH, 

14, 3d, 54, 56, 57, 58 
HUBBARD, CAPT. JEREMIAH 2nd, 16 

HUBBARD, JOB., SR 23, 26, 53 

HUBBARD JOB., JR 23 

HUBBARD, JOEtL 8, 22, 43 

HUBBABD, JOEL 2nd 54 

HUBBARD, JOHN 43, 53 

HUBBARD, REV. JONATHAN 

BURR 48 

HUBBARD, JOSEPH B 23 

HUBBARD, JOSEPH S 48 

HUBBARD, JOSHUA 17 

HUBBARD, JULIA 25 

HUBBARD, LUSINA 41. 42 

HUBBARD, MARY (Aunt Polly), 8, !>. 22 

HUBBARD, MATTHEW .V. 

HUBBARD. MIRIAM 14, 11 

HT'BBARD, MORRIS 8 

HUBBARD, OSWIX 44 

HUBBARD, REUBEN 54 

HT'BBARD, RHODA 14,41 

HUBBARD, ROSWELL 7,20 

HUBBARD, SAMUEL 20,54,62 

HUBBARD, CAPT. SAMUEL, 

(1. 19, 23, 24, 32 
HUBBARD, DR. SAMUEL THOMAS 

16, 52 

HUBBARD, SIIAILER 14 

HUBBARD, SIMEON 10, 55 

HUBBARD. SMITH 20 

HUBBARD, SUSANNAH 14 

HT'BBARD. SYLVESTER, 

6, II. 15, 25, ">4 
HUBBARD, TEMPERANCE ...8, 15, 20 

HUBBARD. THEODORE 6 

HUBBARD, THOMAS 1st 16, 58 

HUBBARD, THOMAS 2nd 16 

HUBBARD, TIMOTHY 17, 54, 59 

HUNTINGTON, NANCY M 41 

HUSBAND, R. W 36, 37 

urn inxosox. DR 52 

JACKSON, TIMOTHY 11 

JIROUDEK. PAUL « 

KELLOGG, DR 52 

KIRKLAND, MR 37 

K XOWLER, ANCESTRY 56 

KXOWLES, APPIHTA BANGS 56 

KXOWLES, DAXIEL IP 

KXOWLES. MISS ELEAXOR 57 

KNOWLES. ELI SUA 10. 11. 60 



Page 

KNOWLES, ELISHA, JR 10 

KXoWLKS, ELIZABETH WELLS... 23 

KXOWLES, HRASTUS H 55 

KXoWLKS, ESTHER 57 

KXOWLES, HARRIS E 10 

KXOWLES, HUBERT W 7 

KXOWLKS, ENSIGN JAMES 54 

K \< >WLES, .IEHIEL 25 

KXOWLKS, JOHN ....10, 43, 53, 56, 58 
KXOWLKS. DEBUT. JOHN, 

9, 11, 54, 57, 59 

KXOWLKS. OOL. JOHN 56 

KXOWLKS, JOHN C 10 

KXoWLKS. JOHN H 10, 29, 44, 49 

KXOWLES, JOSHUA 11, 34 

KXOWLES, MRS. JUDITH 47 

KXoWLKS, MARY SEARS 56 

KXOWLKS, MEHETARKL WALKER, 

57, 60 

KXOWLKS, MIRANDA 42 

KXOWLES, RICHARD !), 10, 11,56 

KXOWLES, RICHARD 2nd 9,60 

KX( ►WILES, RUtBL 19 

K X( VW LBS, SALLY 29 

K X( > W LBS, SARAH 43 

KXOWLES, SIMON 32, 55 

KXOWLKS, TANSON M. CLARK. ..49 
KXOWLKS. WALKER ....20, 23, 32, 54 

KXOWLKS, WELLS 32,55 

KXoWLKS. WILLARD, 

7. 10, 22, 23, 25, 43 
KXOWLKS. WILLIAM. 10. 11, 2S, 60, 61 

KXOWLES. WILLIAM 1st 59 

KXOWLKS. WILLIAM 2nd 10 

KXOWLKS, WILLIAM C. (Rev. 

William Clark) 10,49 

KXOWLKS. ZBRUIAB 10. 28 

LANKIER (Lampier) WILLIAM. ... 43 

L AX I in . MR 19 

LEE, HENRY 18, 55 

MATTII KWS. .1 OIIX 37 

MAY, C. B 33 

MILLER. DR. AMOS S 53 

MooXKY. MRS. OLIVE B 20 

MORRILL. JOHN L 5, 55 

MUDCK. EBBNEZBR 12 

MUNG E.'R. ELIZABETH 58 

NABAHUBTT, KING 4 

XOVOTXY. JOHN 11 

PARMILY. MARY 5$ 

PHELPS, 'HARLES 57 

PHELPS. WILLIAM 57 

I'LAXATA. JOHN 13 

PLAXATA, JOSEPH 10 

PLATT, FREDERIC 22, 54 

PORTER, MR 20,43 

PORTOR, MRS. NAOMU 21 

PORTOR. GILES 21 

PRATT, LEMUEL 54. 60 

RICHARDS, MISS EFFIE, 57 

RICHARDS. MISS ESTHER 57 



INDEX 



65 



Page 

RICHARDS, JEHIEL 25 

RICHARDS, MISS JOSEPHINE 56 

RICHARDS, LUSINA HUBBARD .. 25 
RICHARDS, OSCAR P 9 

SACHUSQUATEVBMAPID, KING . . 4 
SEPUNNEMOPAMPOSSAME, 

QUEEN 4 

SHAILER, JOSEPH R 12 

SHAILER, KATHORN 57 

SHAILER, THOMAS 57 

SIMONS, ABRAM (Abraham), 

12, 35, 36, 37, 38 

SIMONS, ARR4M 2nd 38 

SIMONS, DANIEL 36, 37 

SIMONS, "DENCE", See Simons, 

Prudence. 

SIMONS, ESTHER 38, 39, 43, 44 

SIMONS, PRUDENCE (Dence), 

12, 38, 39, 42, 43 

SIMONS, SVLVANUS 38 

SIMONS, TAMAR 36, 38, 39 

SKINNER, CHAUNCEY D 8 

SKINNER, MRS. EUNICE 47 

SMITH, ABNER 9. 60, 61 

SMITH, AARON 54 

SMITH, CHALLENGE 43 

SMITH, DAVIS 11 

SMITH, DEBORAH 30 

SMITH, DR 52 

SMITH, HAZAEL ..9, 11, 22, 25, 30, 31 

SMITH, IRWIN, W 11 

SMITH, MIiSS LAURA D 30, 41 

SMITH, LUCY 41 

SMITH, MARI AM 41 

SMITH, MARY 41 

SMITH, MEIIETAP.EL 60, 61, 62 

SMITH, STEPHEN 31 

SMITH, THANKFUL 41 

SMITH, WILLIAMS 61 

SNYDER, MR 23 

SOBUCK, JIM, JR 34 

SOBUCK, JIM, SR 34 

SPENCER, ABAGAIL, CLARK 51 

SPENCER, ABIATHA 55 

SPENCER, SERG'T ABNER 17, 5 4 

SPENCER, ABRAHAM 19 

SPENCER, ALBERT lii 

SPENCER, ALANSON 6, 7, 18, 34 

SFENI rfflR, ALBERT 16 

SPENCER, ALVAH W 13 

SPENCER, ALVIN B 22 

SPENCER, ANNE 21 

SPENCER, ATWOOD 17 

SPENCER, BENJAMIN F 22 

SPENCER, DAMARIS 17, 41 

SPENCER, DAVID 13, 23 

SPENCER, CAPT. DAVID 17, 25 

SPENCER, DAVID 2nd 17 

SPENCER, BLIZUiR 9, 12, 13, 34, 54 

SPENCER, EPHRAIM 9 

SPENCER, ESTHER ...7 41, 42 

SPENCER, FELIX 13, 22 

SPENCER, HANNAH 41. 42 

SPBNCBR, JAMBS 6 



Page 

SPENCER, JEHOSOPHAT 17 

SPENCER, JONATHAN P.... 13, 22, 26 

SPENCER, NATHANIEL 3 

SPBNCBR, RUSSELL 55 

SPENCER, SAMUEL 19, 20, 54 

SPENCER, SAMUEL T 55 

SPENCER, URSULA 41, 42 

SPENCER, URSULA HUBBARD ... 7 

SPENCER, WILLIAM EDGAR 7 

"SQUAW" MOLL 34 

STOW, BATHSHEBA 56 

STOW, MARTHA 58 

SUTLIEF, MISS EUNICE 15,29 

SUTLIEF, HEZEKIAH ....7, 15, 19, 27 

SUTLIEF, JAMBS 13 

SUTLIEF, NATHANIEL 15 

SUTLIEF, ROSWBLL 7, 19, 26, 55 

SYMONDS, ABRAM, See Simons 
Abram. 

THOMAS, ALBERT 19 

THOMAS, CORPORAL AARON .... 54 

THOMAS, ANCESTRY 57 

THOMAS, ANSEL 12 

THOMAS, GAIiWN 12, 25 

THOMAS, MRS. CALVIN 12 

THOMAS, CYNTHIA 41 

THOMAS, EBENEZER 11, 12, 54 

THOMAS, BBBNEZER, JR 12 

THOMAS, EMILY (Emily B.) 20, 32 

THOMAS, EVAN 54 

THOMAS, ISRAEL 22 

THOMAS, CAPT. JAMES 8, 22, 25 

THOMAS, JAMES ORISON 32 

THOMAS, JAMES S 20, 25 

THOMAS, MARY 22 

THOMAiS, PRINCE 43 

THOMAS, ROGER 11, 57 

THOMAS. SHERMAN H 27 

TOWKISHE, QUEEN 4 

TREAT, COMFORT J 11 

TREAT, JOSEPH 22 

TREMAINE, DR 52 

TRUMBULL, JONATHAN 27 

TURNER, JOHN 5, 8 

TURRAMUGGUS, KING 4 

WALKLBY, ASA 10, 43 

WARNER, DR 52 

WELLS, ELIZABETH 23 

WELLS, JOSEPH 32 

WHEELOCK, DR 36, 37 

WILCOX, ANCESTRY 57 

WILCOX, EBENEZER 6 

WILCOX, FREDERICK 7 

WILCOX, JOHN 57 

WILCOX, MRS 17 

WILLIAMS, BISHOP 51 

WINCHELL, GEORGE D 14 

WOOD, DELIA A. CLARK 49 

WOOD, REV. GEORGE 49 

WOOD, LLOYD A 18, 49, 55 

WOODRUFF, BLEAZER 52 

WOODRUFF, DR. BLEAZER 19, 52 



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